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S 7:•(//) nn e - • p R ,q 1 • .1; 4).• WW. acting. The one some—nay, the on _ noised as a boy, she steals in • , T • • t . f•P ( Wt' • ( / 7 4' - _ r+ . 4 , - „,46, 4 0111111111111 0 „ -- - ; 4 _ • -:1 &ft •Z:&'4Eff2 4 furnishes a whole gallery of pictures. the sword which is to be her defenc , e, the pzl.tior ‘„, 6144 r c • ~ D t 1 - 4 EMEMBER ! WE WAIT' SUPPER for von al er the Covent Garden Opera, at EVANS'. Fail the approach, the hurry of the ret comedy that she throws into the situation by bringing female timidity into unexpected prominence, the combi nation of the most contentious feelings when the entrance into the cave is ultimately accomplished, form a great work of pictorial art. To appreciate to its full extent the value of Miss Faucit's triumph it is necessary to recur to the fact that to the multitude " Cymbeline" is not a known play. The audience have not, as in the case of " OCiello" or " Hamlet" their regular cues for applause, which they can follow with the regularity of an actor who is guided by the last lines of the preceding speaker. With many plays tradition may do much. It is commanding excellence alone that could have secured to Miss Faucit the enthusiastic ap. plause sho received on Monday last. KINAHAN'S LI, WHISKY T. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Eld., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale it THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1864. N°. 22,569 num , - STAMPED ....sd. 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded “liinahan's LL Whisky." Now ready, in 2 vols , Bvo. , wit h Portrait, T HE HON. 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The CAPITAL of the Company is Two Millions, of which _.:390,000 is paid up and investedaddition there are -Reserve Funds, which, independently of the Life Reserve, amount to £1,200,000. FIRE INSURANCE.—The Premiu ms in 1863 exceeded 580,000, and were treater than those o f any other Company _ by upwards of .£2Q0,000. The position in the Duty Return Will be understood from the following statement:-- 11'1te Sun, established in 1710, co llected duty in 1 863 , L2115,0000)0 The Phoenix 1782, 38, The Liverpool and j ufla 133,000 London and Globe If If Whilst no other Company collected as much a 5...... 90.0 00 LIFE INSURANCE.--The Premiums received in 1863 Were £209,500, and the Annuities pa id amounted to £33,500. The Fund accumulated to meet these Liabilities is ,Ci,450,000. The Liab lity of Prop r ietors is unlimited. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to Vie Company. JOHN A TKIIN S, Resident h'ecretary. September, 1864. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. 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Howell and Co. will esteem the favour of a visit of inspection. than the Manchester School. In this direction be is nearer to the working-class type of Radicalism. He can see how the State may organise and express the real interests of the community in a way quite impossible to individual or even corpo rate efforts, and he can estimate the different degree of confidence placed in the State and in any other poseib;e organisation by the people. and estimate the moral value of this difference—as he has recently shown in his Annuities Bill. This truer estimate of the State and its influence has mo dified Mr Gladstone's Radicalism in the direction of the type we have called the working-men's Ra dicalism, as distinguished from that of the jealous economical school, But on the other hand, the dcep vein of what we have called Christian sentiteent, as distinguished from the sturdy Christian ethics, in again when he has accepted his mind, the pacif ic h um anitarian feeling which makes him shrink f rom a ll war, not on principle, but by instinct, whi c h it makes hiss writh e p a i n fully under the duty of prosecuting it, and which makes him feel consum mation of a great injustice preferable to resisting it at the cost of blood--the intellectual refinement which gives him a distaste for the use of physical force as something coarse and vulgar even when most necessary the Peelite prudence which over estimates the risk of a s trong policy and —under estimates the risk of a vacillating one—all these qualities tend to modify Mr Gladstone's type of Radicalism in the opposite direction to that of the working-class type, and. to strengthen in effect while touching with__a softer and warmer colouring the policy of the Manchester School. In short, Mr. Gladstone's Radicalism is, in rough type, that of the captalist class,—eager, active, fertile of economies and improvements, caring more for the free scope of energy and capacity than for the pro tection of feeble individual rights such as those of the slave. But the hardness of the outline is mo dified considerably both in intellect and sentiment. It is in its picturesque effect as different from Mr. Cobden's as the Iron outline of the horizon in a March east wind from the blue distance of a sum mer sky. His reverence for the State—closely connected with his reverence for the Church — brings him nearer to the working-class; his some what feminine Christianity and deficiency in sym pathy with rude popular justice, takes him further in the opposite direction. But considered as a whole his Radicalism, though not perhaps of the most masculine type, has a more refined, a more delicate, a more intellectual essence, than any of the somewhat harsh and narrow creeds which have hitherto gone by that name. THE " EXAMINER" ON JUNIUS AND NEWSPAPER WRITING.—It the best newspaper writing of the present age surpasses the writing of Junius, the public is very much to blame both for its want of curiosity about the authorship of leading articles, and for being generally content with one reading. How many times was Junius read by the educated and intellectual men of the last generation ? How many passages were learnt by heart? No such compliment has been paid to any newspaper of writing of the present century. Sufficient for the day is the merit thereof. And if writing be so immensely improved, how is it that the public appreciation of it, and interest in its authorship, have not kept pace with the progress ? Is it that Juniuses aro so common nowadays that no one asks questions about them? But Junius was not really a newspaper writer. He wrote, indeed, in a newspaper, bat without the hard conditions of a newspaper writer. He took time to prepare his essays, and to polish the style to the highest degree. He had his choice of subjects, and could touch and retouch his composition till he satisfied his nice judgment. Regular newspaper writing, generally against time, is very different sort of work. It must be off hand, pro re nata, struck off at a heat, and with little opportunity for correction and emeudation. The preparation must be in the mind beforehand, not in any stage of the hasty , performance. The task being so much more ardu ous than that of the writer who composed and core rected at leisure, the newspaper writer who could equal Junius would be very much his superior in the powers of the authorship. But we think that Junius stands unequalled, and must remain un equalled, by any writer, whatever his genius or accomplishments, who labours under the disadvant. tages of a daily or weekly press, requiring prompt performance and allowing little - room for second thoughts and the polishing hand. It is wonderful in such circumstances that the writing is so good, that the rough cast has so little that lacks mending and smoothing; but, as the Greeks say. 4 ' it is a grievous thing to be over-praised," and let us deprecate this wrong to newspaper composition. At the Manchester meeting Mr Gladstone observed —" The great organs of the press, as you well know, are conducted by some of the most accomh plished minds of the country. Many of the arti cles written in those papers before the repeal of the paper duty were worthy of taking a place in the permanent literature of England. I well remember being in company with Sir R. Peel, not less than 30 years back, when a question was raised about the authorship of ' Junius,' You well remember how great a national es well as a literary sensation was produced at the time by the publication of those letters; in point of fact, the intense controversy with respect to the authorship may enable us to measure the importance of those letters as a politis cal phenomenon of the times: But when that ques tion was in discussion in private conversation, the literary merit of the letters themselves was also brought under view, and I well recollect that Sir Ro bert Pcel gave at once his opinion that the letters of. Junius were not as well written as the Times." The opinion of Sir Robert Peel was entitled to great weight upon matters of finance, upon details of government, and administrative questions, but he was no literary authority, and we are surprised that Mr Gladstone should have quoted his crude judg ment upon such a subject. There was no refine ment in the mind of Sir Robert Peel, and we can easily understand its inability to appreciate the keen points and consummate finish of ' Junius.' Sir Robert Peel was not a sufficiently good writer to be a critical reader, and seldom did a note of his appear without some sin against good taste. He was, indeed, not the man to judge of the thing in which he was remarkably deficient. Like many his speech was far above his other writ i writing, debaters, bu this speech had faults. of inelegance. He did not always pronounce the h where it ought to have been pronounced, and he pronounced it where it ought not to have been heard. And, farther, he occasionally slipped into expressions belonging to the diction of Mrs Malaprop. It is no disparagement of a man wi , h the powers and attainments of Sir Robert Peel to say that the re finements were out of his way, and pure English may have seemed to him insipid. We remember hearing an opinion upon Junius very much like that of Sir Robert Peel, hazarded by a young man in th e presence or a true critic, who disposed of it in three words, " Read him again." Perhaps, if Sir Robert Peel had read Junius again he would have amended his judgment upon him, for there were few questions upon which ho had not held opp os it e opinions at different times. The comparison be tween the excellent wr i t ing of th e Ti mes an d limes respective is s and peculiar styles, 'written by se veral Junius is one wh ic h no literary man would have h made. ands w Theththe which cannot be brought int o com p ar ison with the writing of one author. The expres• sine " well written" is, however, very. vague . It m i ay mean style, or it may mean no more than cor rectness in grammar and diction. Probably what was in Sir Robert Peels mind was simply that the writing in the limes pleased him as much as the writing of Junius, th e ver y merits of which could neither be found in the treatment of current topics handling of a diversity of subjects. What we dis ilnikea isthe i the appropriate newspaper, disparagementnor su i ted w he t h o accords too well with the propensity o f the a g e, and flatters its self sufficiency. Why cast down Junius from his place in the English classics? How are we the better for having a standard, a model, th e l ess ? A n d it is not alleged the model is faulty, though much might be said on that score, but that it has been equalled by another, which has not the fixed permanent form to mould a taste. Not that we think an i mitat ion of Junius desirable, for he is too artificial a writer, even if imitation were ever good, but his niceties wculd serve as cor rective to the slovenliness .which is becoming more and more prevalent, the slipshod style of the very easy writing which is hard readi ng , We regret, that Mr Gladstone did not give us his own judgs meat upon the merits of Junius instead of screening himself behind Sir Robert Peel's opi n ion. If it be true that it is a consolation to have companions in m i s f or tune, the shade of Junius may derive comfort from the fact that the finest political writer of France, Paul Louis Courtier, obtains mention in Lord Stanhope's Life of Conde, only as a libeller, or pamp hl e te e r. Courrier may have had as much art in his compositionas ass ace if so, he had withal the art to conceal i t, and to wear the grace of nature in the most cutting ex p osures of tyranny and hypocrisy. "THE QUEEN" ON THE ROYAL BABY.—The arrival of the infant Prince at Hull, en route from Denmark to Bal moral, was an event in Dabydoixk, Certainly there never was so much fuss made about a child of ten months old as there was by the Corporation and inhabitants of that town, where, it would seem, a certain amount of dissatisfaction prevails on account of the rarity of the occasions upon which it has been visited by royalty. The good people of Hull should, however, remember that if their port does not ex actly "lead nowhere," it lies on the road to and from very few places. Denmark is, indeed, ono of these ; and in the event (a very improbable one, we must admit) of her Majesty paying a visit to "the Majesty of Denmark," it is not impossible that she may give occasion for the good people of Hull to manifest their loyalty. Acting, however (we may fairly presume) upon the principle that a small excuse is better than none, all Hull turned out to do honour to the baby. The London daily papers gives elabo rate accounts of the manner in which the baby was re ceived, According to the Morning Post, as soon as Salamis (the steamer which bore the child) was sighted. "a message was sent to the Mayor in forming him of the arrival cf the royal infant," whereupon " his worship, wearing his robes of office, soon made his appearance on the pier." The mayor, accompanied by the sheriff (whose presence on the occasion is not very intelli gible), and other gentlemen, then embarked upon a steamer and steamed out to meet the Salamis. They encountered her outside the harbour, and the mayor and sheriff, accom panied by the Danish consul, went on board. Here, how ever, they were destined to receive "a damper," for the Countess de Grey and Ripon (who had charge of the baby), accompanied by the wet nurse, inrormed them that the child would be kept on board all night, and land next morning at half-past 8 o'clock. Another reporter, who is evidently fond of entering into details, informs us that " the prince was said to have suffered rather severely from sea sickness." The mayor, however, had no alternative but to return and "inform the multitude" that had assembled of the proposed arrangement, and to request the common councilmen of the borough to meet him early next morning for the purpose of receiving his Royal High ness. The circumstances of that reception are carefully recorded by an eyewitness, The mayor, aldermen, common councilmen and the Danish Consul were all in attendance, as also were "thousands of persons." We are told that the pier was lined on either side with persons anxious to see the Royal infant. Although the weather was rather raw, their desires were gratified. The infant Prince was held up, and his face uncovered. Mrs Davis, the wife of Mr Sheriff bavis, on his Royal Highness being brought to the pier, went forward and presented him with a toy in the shape of a white fur rabbit. The Countess de Grey and Ripon, the wet nurse, and other attendants then took their seats in the carriages which were in attendance. The party drove through the streets at a rapid pace, followed by an enthusiastic and by no means orderly crowd. At the Paragon-street railway station of the North Eastern Coun ties a vast multitude of people had congregated to have a view of the royal baby, and their conduct was somewhat boisterous, so much so that the police who were in attend ance had considerable difficulty in keeping the people from surrounding the nurse in whose arms his royal highness was. A special train was drawn up near the platform, and the party at once took their seats in the royal saloon carriage. To gratify the general wish as much as possible the baby was held up at the windows of the carriage, in order that the crowd might see his face. The train left the station about half-past eight o'clock amidst great cheer ing. Dr Sieveking, the medical attendant, and Mr Norton, the Queen's messenger, went with the train, and in the same saloon with the Prince were the wet nurse and another lady—a French nurse. The Earl and Countess de Grey remained in Hull. The royal train is expected to arrive at Balmoral this evening, where the young Prince will be taken charge of by his grandmamma,the Queen." We must confess that, highly as we appreciate the value of genuine loyalty and the feeling of attachment towards the royal family, we can regard this absurd demonstration on the part of grave men, seriously endeavouring to celebrate the advent among them of a child of ten months old only as a ridiculous and inexplicable piece of snobbishness. It was not enough for the poor little creature to have braved the storms of the North Sea, but it must also be sickened by the fulsome nonsense of the Mayor of Hull. Nor does the violence of the waves appear in any way to have been more embarrassing and disagreeable than the boisterous conduct of the Hull mob, which seems to have rendered the intervention of the police necessary for the preservation of the integrity of his royal highness's limbs. Surely this story of the baby's reception (if it come to be quoted abroad), will be received with no little ridicule. Atter landing at Hull, the baby was taken, ty way of Edinburgh, to Balmoral, where it arrived on Tuesday afternoon. The reporters who chronicle the event, surmise that "it may interest mothers to know that the royal babe wore a blue dress, with grey cloak edged with white fur, and white hat turned with blue r:bands." This may set the fashion among babies. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON BANTINGISM.—The respective effects of sugar and of starch upon the human person still continue to be a matter of vehement dis cussion in the daily papers. The poet tells us that the world knows nothing of its greatest men. It is beginning to know a good deal about its fattest men, fur they are all writing vehemently, one after another, to the Loudon press upon the interesting subject of their obesity. Their mis• sionary ardour is very pleasant and very catching. It is a pity that Mr Banting and Mr Mcchi did not live in the days of Shakespeare. Hamlet need never have wished in vain that his too, too solid flesh would melt. Fal staff would have reduced his size in three weeks est. eoi Theresaccharinewagain,i t o observed. is, s have e eßanting rhmatter voe however, been Itr ve by forswearing sack, and might, at the expiration of the time, have marched through Coventry as thin as the rest of his regiment. The rapid induction which led Julius Caesar to his famous estimate of the relative conspirator powersco intoeon r ne i t o rr u teon s mv o e l yefadrrusifkeyapattsbwe remarkable circumstance which, e s 3 has a h i g e l s e a in n a tr d d h h men never oeernetninu hitherto o t might,enn rteee month. Where are who never all seems odd that it is only the very fat men who experi men t upon themselves, and who publish the result of their expe riments e t n he ? T ‘ i: v n h e e s from o are r e month h to whipping -posts the lean i took sugar in their coffee, and who suddenly ,have become respectably full-bodied by feeding on it in quantities? As yet, they have made no sign; though, if sumar is poison to the rotund, it ought to be a godsend to every Master Slender in the country. The fat kine are having it all their own way. The lean kine appear to be of a more retiring disposition, and leave the columns of the press clear for the epistolary correspondence of those whose figures, like King Arthur's round table, are the imago of the mighty world. Admiral Fitzroy's drum has become, after much dispute, a staple portion of the daily intelligence of the Times. Mr Mechi's weighing machine is, doubtless, as scientific and certainly as interesting a study as either the drum of the worthy Admiral or the thermometer of Mr Lowe. It ought to have a column assigned to it as well; and, for the sake of symmetry, the special intelligence about the bodily state of Mr Mechi and Mr Banting ought to figure next in order after the news of the molassesand the rice market. 'When molasses were brisk and buoyant, Mr Mechi would probably be ex actly the reverse. Rice and Banting would be flat together. A quick trade in the sugar market would imply that a pro portionate number of British subjects were growing heavy; and if Mr Buckle was still alive he would find no more difficulty in tracing the moral character of Mr Banting's disciples to the fluctuations in starch, than he has in de ducing the qualities of the Egyptian from his lotus, or the Indian from his rice. There are a certain number of vege tarians who insist that vegetable diet is the true path to h um an happiness and virtue. The testimony of Mr Bent- L e g goes far to prove that there is something in their rea soning. It is evident that domestic life may be cloudy or sunshiny, according as a man takes his tea plain or with cream. The milk jug and the sugar basin are the great enemies of the human race. If Hogarth could only revisit these earthly scenes, pencil in hand, he might have given us a pendant to the Rake's Progress. The first tableau might depict the fated and unhappy youth as he appears in all the beauty of pristine slimness before he ever came across a cow, or was tempted to make acquaintance with the pro duce of the sugar cane. In an evil hour he is introduced to a sugar tongs, which proves his ruin. He no longer enjoys the happy and innocent pleasure of slimness. In the sequel he is seen gradually growing fatter and fatter as he pro gresses from one lump in his cup to more. The last scene of the eventful history is indeed a harrowing one. The wretched man has become a confirmed sugar drinker. He is unwieldy and rotund ; he is obliged to got out of cabs and to go down stairs backwards. He has not tied his own shoes for years. He is observed seated sadly at his breakfast table, surrounded by honeys and jams of every description, the instruments of his moral destruction In the foreground are an emptied butter dish and a sugar basin of portentous size. In the background are the full demons of corpulency and breathlessness waiting to hurry I him to his grave. Such is the sugar drinker's progress, the decline and fall of man from his condition of sugarless simplicity. A scientific F.R.S. has very properly called attention to the fact that anti-saccharine experiments, if they are worth making at all, ought to be methodically and upon proper scientific principles. It is no use to deal superficially with the question. and so much both Mr Battling and Mr Mechi acknowledge in their turn. Both of thorn appear to be imbued with the true spirit of the Baconian philosophy. Mr Mechi takes caro to weigh himself at proper hours and in the proper costume. He keeps his scales in his dressing-room, and jumps into them with the same regularity as that with which other men jump into their bath. The F.R.S., however, is right in the main. It is undesirable that so important a branch of natural philosophy should be left to the empiric experi menting of any pair, however conscientious and however fat. The investigation ought to be conducted on a large area, and under proper scientific supervision. We learn that a paper on the subject of Bantingism was read at Bath before the British Association, That illustrious body has a fund from which it assists worthy experiments, such Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T" QUEEN OF THE COUNTY. By the Author of "Margaret and her Bridesmaids "'The Queen of the COunty ' is a novel of :he first class. It is a story of exciting interest, and a (ielightful study f female character. Independently of its interesting plot, an elevated moral tone and gl eat literary ability give it accu mulated claims to a place in andard literature." —Post. II urst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. LORD LYNN'S WIFE On Octob r 28. THEO LEIGH. 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THE " SPECTATOR" ON TIIE GLADSTONIC RADI CALISM.—Mr Gladstone's political creed may be described as a chemical combination between the ideas of Oxford and Manchester. In the last of the cycle of seven speeches with which he delighted Lancashire last week, he explained with some pathos how difficult he had found it as member for the University of Oxford to harmonise the thoughts of Oxford and of Lancashire. " For many long years," he slid, " it has been my undeserved but happy lot to represent in Parliament one of the ancient Universities of the country. Often and long have I deplored, and sensibly have I felt, the difficulty of keeping together in harmony and effi ciency the older and newer pursuits of our Chris • tian civilisation." Between civilisation as under stood by Oxford, and civilisation as understood by Manchester, he explained, a generation or two ago there was " little sympathy or connection." And even now there is but an imperfect understanding between them which much needs to be ren dered wider and more profound. We would not assert that Mr Gladstone is precisely the man to mediate between these different worlds, though he has deep sympathies with both. For we very much doubt whether the teeming and ingeni ous intellect of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, fertile as it is in subtle distinct ions,finesse of thought, and delicate artistic playfulness, is precisely of the sort to impress Manchester with the advantages of a scholastic training. Much as he has politically in common with Manchester, his modes of concep tion, and expression are too complex, not broad and emphatic enough, to fasten on the imagination of Lancashire, nor, on the other hand, do we think that they ad , quately represent the proper results which Oxford ,vulture tends to produce. Mr Glad• stone's intellect is so to say furrowed or " chased " with Oxford distinctions and subtleties, but they have never run deep enough into him to merge in that ultimate simplicity and unity of conception— in one school or another—which is the most remark able result of Oxford training on the minds which have exhausted the utmost power of that discipline. There are many representatives of the typical Ox ford culture whose modes of thought would find their way much more easily to the hardy un■ derstanding of Manchester than Mr. Gladstone. For he has grafted what we may call a multitude of the secondary ideas of one particular Oxford school rather than the ultimate principles of any, on a mass of intellectual tendencies which are indigenous in the manufacturing districts. But whether Mr. Glad stone is the man to interpret Oxford toManchester, or whether,as we suspect, he is much better fisted to interpret Manchester to Oxford, it is not now our purpose to inquire. What we want to discover is how far the type of Radicalism into which Mr. Gladstone'spowerful mind is steadily drifting differs from the ordinary creed which has hitherto been known by that name. And it is necessary first to notice that even of the old Radical creed there were always two very different branches—the one pro ceeding from the proud independence of the capi talist, which distrusted legislation, pleaded for laissez faire (meaning by laissez faire free dicta. torial power to control labour so far as money can control it), and cared for Parliamentary reform as an engine to be used against the special privileges of the aristocracy than from any deep value for the dignity and education of the poor ; the other branch of Radicalism proceeding from the political aspirations of working-men, who have always contemplated the intervention of legislation between themselves and the power of the purse, and yet have desired Pare liamentari reform for its own sake, to relieve them from a reproach and a disability, quite as much as for any legislative results they have expected from it. The former type of Radicalism has always insisted specially on economy and non-interference in foreign affairs from a real jealousy of the in• fiuence of Government, a strong utilitarian trade feeling, and distrust of the power of any political principle but self-interest. The working-class type of Radicalism, on the contrary, has always been tolerably willing for lavish expenditure, eager for the extension of imperial influence, and credulous of the power of propagandist efforts in the curse of freedom. Thus the two types of Radicalism have had little in common but the name, together with a common profession of dislike for aristocratic prestige and a desire for Parliamentary reform as the sup posed instrument for sapping its roots. Now, as the complex network of secondary Conservative ideas (chiefly of ecclesiastical origin, has gradually worn away from the surface of Mr Gladstone's intellect, the type of Radicalism which has manifested itself has been no doubt rather of the former—the capitalist laissez. faire kind—than the latter. The economist's dislike of interference in foreign affairs and jealousy of public expenditure, that distrust of national propagandism which the complete self sufficiency of trade and its well-defined insulation from all the other interests of life produce on the managing capitalist—that tendency to test more at least with respect to all moral contracts, and that delicacy about weakening it even by remonstrance which the conduct of large commercial transactions ensures—all crop out occasionally in Mr Gladstone with the force of an inherited nature from beneath the modifying influences of his intellectual culture. You see it in the hard view that he takes of the American contest, which is not only utterly without sympathy with the imperial instincts of a great nation, but also quite irrespective of the rights of the slaves, and as if the question were, for the North, merely one of meddling or not meddling in the affairs of an independent section of the country. You see it again in the root, though not in the mode, of hi 3 con• st ant advocacy of a" chastened" modesty in the atti tude of England towards the rest of the world, her own colonies included. his dislike to a wide territoe rial empire is a growing ono. He feels that it perplexes and embarrasses our financial calculations, and he suspects that it is an inflated ambition to attempt to control so wide a surface from a single centre. The business side of politics influences his creed more than either the purely moral or the imagine.• live side. On the other hand, Mr. Gladstone's Ridicalisni is essentially modified from the Lanca shire, or what we have called the capitalist type, by two disturbing causes, his inventive and discur sive intellect, and his Christian sentiment. It would be impossible for Mr. Gladstone to acquiesce com pletely in the hard bare doctrine of the laissez faire economical school, which reduces the State to a more body-and-goods insurance society, and looks upon workingmen as machines with the power to make contracts. He knows that this is false economy. He feels that it is false doctrine. He has a greater respect for the State and its power of modifying the relations between class and claws QTRAND MUSICK HALL. PROMENADE CONCERTS EVERY EVENING. With a lull and select Band of Forty Performers. Conductor, Mr. F Kingsbury. The following eminent artistes will appear :—Vocalists Madlle. Rosa Wilks, Mdlle. Fanny Molidoff, Nldlle. Carlotta Mayer. Instrumentalists: Violin, Signor Giovanni Adel mann ; Cornet-h-Piston, M. Duhem, Professor at the Conser vatoire Royale at Brussels ; Pianoforte, M. Tito Mattel, Pianist to his Majesty the King of Italy. Admission, Is. ; Private box es, 105. 6d. ; balcony stalls, 2s. Open at half-past Seven, commence at Eight. 31[ADGAALMLEERY TelLSliAshiJedD'2SB yearsli HISTORICAL T th O e R B I a, CA aa L , Baker-street. NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of DR. COUTY DI LA POMMERALS, the Poisoner, taken from the original photograph, by ions. T, inquart, of Paris, from life, is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Admittance, ls. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 11 till 5, and from 7 till 10. as Mr Glaisher's ballooning. It is difficult to see why experiments on the Banting system should not be arranged by the same illustrious society, and their ex penses defrayed from the same source. Bantingizing is surely as dangerous as ballooning; for a thorough-going Banting exposes his life for the good of his fellow-crea tures as bravely as the most intrepid aeronaut. Perhaps the most serious obstacle is the difficulty of finding a num ber of individuals willing to yield themselves up as sub jects for the experience of science. There is only one Mr Glaisher, and there are, probably, not many Bantings. If Mr Banting had been, indeed, a denizen of Russia in the days of Peter the Great, or of Prussia in the times of Fre derick, there would have been no delay. His system would have been tried immediately upon the fattest and most desperate criminals. For a free country the plan would prove, perhaps, a failure. That the State should Banting . ze a gaol-bird against his will would be as odious whose duty might, indeed, was o b e be possible to regulate to their diet for with living to all enlightened citizens as fl og ging in the army is to those metropolitan member s w h ose se at is contested hotly. It precision, and to take observations of their personal declension with accurate nicety. But it is to be feared that science would suffer by enlisting under her sacred banner an army of cold blooded mercenaries. They would treat Mr Banting as Sancho Panza treated Don Quixote in the matter of the stripes which were to disenchant Dulcinea, and which, when Don Quixote's back was turned, his squire laid vigor ously on to the neighbouring tree. To try Mr Banting's system thoroughly, enthusiasts and not mercenaries are 1% anted, only that enthusiasts in the cause of abstinence are not so easily discovered. THE "SATURDAY REVIEW'S" TRIBUTE TO MISS HELEN FAUCIT.—T here is something in the present aspect of Drury Lane Theatre that makes us feel as though we had glided, to the extent of some 20 years or more, up the stream of time, and were again witnessing the efforts of Mr Macready to establish the high poetical drama in one of its ancient abodes, whence it had been driven by opera, ballet, and spectacle. The master-spirit is indeed not present ; hut the managers who now hold his place, though their names do not sound so loud in the trumpet of fame, adopt the prin ciples which he has bequeathed to them, and find their reward therein. The notion that Drury Lane is not merely a big edifice, fit for everything save the purpose for which it was built—that it may still possibly became the capital of the English theatrical world, especially now that the link between Covent Garden and the non-lyrical drama seems to be severed for ever—is again astir, and is regarded as at least plausible, whereas, if started ten years ago, it wou:d have been looked upon as the dream of an unprac tical enthusiast. And much of the plausibility of this notion is to be sought in the earnest and consistent manner in which Messrs. Falconer and Chatterton go to work. They cannot indeed collect such a company as was presented by Mr Macready when he opened Drury Lane in the season of 1841-2, or by Madame Vestris when she opened Covent Garden shortly afterwards; for death and old age have deprived us of many established grandees of the profession who were then in full vigour, while several have been dispersed in consequence of the modern system of theatrical free trade, which, whatever may be its advan tages in other respects, is certainly adverse to the formation of strong companies. But even in this direction they have done their best. Mr Phelps, indubitably the actor of the highest standing now to be found available for legitimate purposes, is at the head of their force, and around his name are grouped a circle of others belonging to trained and respected owners. Granted the present" condition of the stage, and required the levy of a tragic troop, we do not think that the problem could havo been better solved than it has been by Messrs Falconer and Chatterton. To their earnest spirit witness is also borne by the manner in which their pieces are produced, or, as technical writers say, " put upon the stage." They have recourse to grand spectacles on occasion, and sometimes awaken the uncom- THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. fortable doubt whether the accessory is intended to add efficiency to the play, or the play is revived for the sake of the accessory, but they usually adhere to an unobtrusive and perfectly satisfactory mode of decoration which takes a middle place between shabbiness and pageant. When a manager does nothing for a play whatever beyond illustrat ing it with the first picture that his scene-room yields and the bundle of clothes that comes readiest to hand in his wardrobe, we may be sure that his austere simplicity pro ceeds—not hone a belief thit dramatic purity, unaided and unadorned, is all-sufficient for his purpose—but, on the contrary, from a conviction that the taste for Shakse peare, which has tempted him to revive one of the ordinary plays is too doubtful, or at any rate too transient, to be worth a largo investment even of time and trouble. Ever since the opening of the theatre this season, the specta tJrs must have been struck with the excellence of scenery the existence of which is not even hinted at in the bills. These belong to the old stores of the establishment, and have been renovated under the superintendence of Mr W. Bove ley, by whom the scenic department is di rected. The first part of "Henry 1V.," which was the spectacle-piece of last year ; the second part of the same play, which is a curiosity in central London, and has acquired celebrity through the Justice Shallow of Mr Phelps; and the well-known " Othello," with the same gentleman as the Moor, have been played here to crowded houses. Mr. Carlyle looked upon Dr. Johnson with admiring wonder, as a man who could actually pray in the age of Voltaire. Othello, chiefly sustained by a popular tragedian who is neither returning after a long absence, nor bidding a fare well, nor talking broken English, but nevertheless draws throngs in an age of " sensation" and burlesque, is a pheno menon equally worthy of marvel. But the crowning event of the season is the reappearance of Miss Helen Faucit on the boards where she was once considered the least dis pensable of artists. Through the addition of this gifted lady, the company, hitherto satisfactory, becomes really strong, and from Monday last dates a renewed claim of popularity for Drury Lane. The character she selected was that of Imogene, in Cymbeliae, a play which has not not been acted—save at Sadler's Wells, and perhaps some of the t r a e m or n o s t n e rs o s ti c e b n u e r b o s r — s p f e o e r c u h p t w h a a r t d of has as a twenty traditional years, ce l w e b h r i e i t h e o y withn the multitude, and which to uncultivated persons who never read their Shakspere, is scarcely known by name. On her first entrance she seemed a living record of another order of things—a record be it observed, on which time had left no trace, for she looked as young, as graceiul, and as buoyant, as when she first acted the character under the management of Mr. Macready. She was at once greeted with deafening applause, but still we watched with interest to ascertain whether acting of such ethereal refine ment as hers could be thoroughly appreciated by a modern audience of a very mixed kind, and in whom the organ of veneration has been but slightly cultivated. Of late years, applause, when not gained by an appeal to the risible facul ties of mankind, has generally been elicited by a strong re production of every-day reality, with those details of the truthfulness of which everyone can judge. Moreover, although now rising into prominence, Drury-lane has not of late been a fashionable theatre, and the question arose whether the occupants of its pit wculd be thoroughly alive to that exquisite ideality which characterizes Miss Faucit's impersonations, especially when the part acted was one of the most ideal kind. The lovely passage— I would have broke mine eye-strings ; cracked them, but To look upon him; till the diminution Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle; Nay, followed him till he had melted from The smallness et a gnat to air— was, in her lips, ono of the most delicate expressions of de voted tenderness, with the additional charm that it pre sented the situation merely described. The spectator might believe, from Miss Faucit's manner, that she actually saw the retiring Posthumus dwindling into air—nay, could almost imagine that he himself beheld the gradual diminu tion. But that unconscious propriety of Imogen, that innate virtue which guards her as a shield and enfolds her as a garment, that purity of soul which speaks in her slightest movements—would all this be thoroughly understood by persons long accustomed to sympathise with no griefs but such as might fall with most prosaic force to their own share, and to see the most tragic situations subjected to a burlesque treatment ? There is something so inimitably picturesque in Miss Faucit's acting that ono constantly longs to see each successive attitude fixed in a photograph and bound into a volume to form a psychological illustration to the play. But would this excellence appeal to a public for which, of all arts, sculpture has the slightest charm Abandoning the interrogative mood, we gladly record the fact that Miss Faucit's Imogen was appreciated to the high est degree of enthusiasm. When once she had the audience in her grasp, she held them firmly, and was listened to with breathless attention. However admirable a performance may be, some one salient point is always requisite to convert quiet approbation into demonstrative sympathy. This point in " Cymbeline" was the sudden indignation of Imogen when lachimo's false reports of the infilelity of Post humus are followed by an attempt on her honour. To some minds the delicate doubts and sorrow by which the mind of the peerless Imogen is harassed, and in the delineation of which the subtlest emotions of the part are reproduced in tho most refined expressions of the actress—whose whole fame, so to speak, is thyoted to the tank of realising one of the coyest of ideale—might sc.rcely be intelligible; but the outburst of virtuous rage was a " touch of nature " that addressed all intellects alike, and the house reverberated with an explosion of admira.ion. We aptly use an oft. allowed commonplace when we say that the transformation of the extremely gentle being into a heroine, striking terror with glance, voice, and gesture, was electrical. The stand point of admiration having been attained, what a scene of beauty was opened to the view I The refined artist to whom the right of delivery of the least prominent word was a matter of the highest importance, had that power of expressing the strongest emotion without which a wide popularity is not to be acquired, and it was felt that not only art, but nature, was at the basis of her must subtle interpretations. W e have touched upon, the picturer:•que character of Miss Fawcett s PLYMOUTH, Oct. 23. The Union Company's Cape royal mail steamship Briton, Captain Boxer, arrived here this morning from Table Bay Sept. 20; St. Helena, S:pt."9; and Ascension, o.:t. 3. She brings 28 passengers and 16 soldiers (time -expired men). Her cargo consists of 344 bsgs copper ore, 623 hales wool, 845 bales hides, 42 bales sheep and goat skins, 10 cases ostrich feathers, eight tusks ivory, 49 cases aloes, two bales angora hair, two cisks seal skins, and a quantity of silver lead ore from the West Coast. Among her passengers are Sir William and Lady Hodges and family. Captain Hamersham, of the ship Castilian, and the steward took passage in the Briton from Ascension, but the captain died on the passage. The Briton sighted the island of Faro on Oct. 15. She had fine weather throughout all the passage to near the Channel.- - At the Cape the most important political ques tion then pending, as far as South Africa was con• cerned, was the projected annexation of British Kaffraria to the Cape, and the arrangements to be made, and the liabilities to be incurred for the future defence of the new colonial border. His Excellency the Governer was in British litarario, and would proceed from thence to the Orange River Free State for the purpose of settling the boundary of Moshesh's country. While in King William Town the governor had an interview with a deputation from a public meeting, and in replies to questions addressed to him, stated that the Home Government would shortly decide whether Kaffraria hon 1 d be incorporated with the Cape Colony, The Advertiser and Mail says :—" The first thing his Excellency will have to do is to convince the Kaffrarians that it is for their own interest to be joined with the Cape colonists. The second condi tion is, that before any annexation is effected there must be a redistribution of the electoral franchise so as to secure the continuance of a fair equipoise of political power among the different provinces of the colony. Parliament will require that for every vote added from the British Kraffarian side there must be a corresponding extension made of the representative power of the midland and wes tern districts." Also, "It is vain to expect that the Cape Parliament will undertake the liability of having British Kaffraria annexed to the old colony until a distinct and clear understanding is come to respecting the extent and the manner in which the Imperial Government will continue its contribu tions towards the defence of the frontier and the civilisation of the native savage tribes still resident immediately beyond the border." The Lieutenant Governor and Commander of the Forces was at Grahamstown, but there was no prospect of any outbreak on the part of the natives. Kreli was to be located between the Kei and the Bashee, and was to have a magistrate resident with him. The weather in the colony had been remarkably favourable for the farmers, and a plentiful harvest was expected. The breadth of land under cultiva. tion had never been exceeded, and the crops were very promising. Trade was good, money plentiful, and provisions cheap. Owing to the additional taxing measures, which were passed during the last session, it was confidently expected that the deficiency hitherto apparent in the revenue would. be more than made up. Mr F. S. Watermeyer, one of the leading barris• tern of the Supreme Court, had died at the early age of 37. He was counsel for the plaintiff in the case of Long versus the Bishop of Capetown. The Supreme Court has quashed the sentence of deprivatio❑ pronounced by the by nod of the Dutch Reformed Church on the Rev. Mr Alotze, one of her ministers, ou the ground that the accused was not allowed a legal trial. A company had been formed for the introduction of the Llama from South America. The first ships ment was expected towards the end of this year. Land companies had also been formed in Cape Town. and Port Elizabeth. Three more slave dhow, captured on the east coast by H.M.S. Ariel, had been condemned in the Vice-Admiralty Court. A party of 200 men had- b3en employed by Government in commencing the extension of the railway from Wellington to Worcester. The following had been the arrivals out in Table Bay from England during the month :—August 22, Alma, from London ; 23, Dunedin, from Sander- land for Singapore ; 24, Balden, from Swansea ; 24, Pollux, Russian ship, from London; 26, Annie Comrie, from Newcastle ; 27, Demerara, from. Greenock; Sept. 11, Eveline, from Cardiff; 11, Avalanche, from London, bound to Melbourne; 13, Maori, from Cardiff; 14, Skimmer of the Waves, from London ; 15, royal mail steamer Cambrian, from Plymouth ; 15, Westbury, from London, bound to Sydney; 16, Forfarshire (wrecked), from Liver. pool, bound to Calcutta ; 18, Ballarat, from Sunder. land; 19, L. A. Bang, Swedish ship, from Cardiff; British Merchant, from London; Hollinside from Downs. In Algoa Bay :—August 19, Zodiac, from London ; 25, Ariel, from London ; 26, Meg Merrillies, from London ; Archer, from Lon. don ; 29, Alphington ; September 12, Dione, from. London; and in Simon's Bay, Aug. 22, Falcon, from. Liverpool, bound to Hong Kong; 23, lone, from. Cardiff; Sept. 19, Island Queen, from Cardiff. Her Majesty's ship Vulcan left Simon's Bay Aug. 26, for Australia; and Ariel, Sept. 1, for England. There were still there the Seringapatam, Ringdove, and. Valorous. At St. Helena were the merchant ships Winifred and Silver Eagle. At Ascension, Castilian, and her Majesty's ships Meander, Griffin, Pandora, Clio, and Wye. The following shipping casualties are reported from the Cape :—The ship Evening Star, Captain Montano, arrived in Table Bay,Oct. 2, with loss of foremast, bowsprit, and topgallantmast, which were carried away in a heavy gale off the Cape a few nights previous. She was refitting. She was from Bimlapatam, for London. The ship Avalanche, 900 tons, Captain James Russell, one of the Black Ball line of packets, from London July 8, for Mel.. bourne, put in at Table Bay on Sept. 11, having sprung a leak 40 days before, which obliged the crew and passengers to be pumping night and day. The following are the particulars ;—" Ship sprung a leak in lat. 10.23 N., long. 33.22 W. Previous to this time the ship made no water. The leak come menced all at once, at the rate of 18in. per hour and. gradually increased, when all hands and passengers were engaged pumping. They soon got worn out, and requested the captain to put the vessel into some port, and he decichd on going into Table Bay ; she was then making 3ft, of water per hour. Anchored. in Table Bay on Sept. 11, when she was boarded, and her agents sent men off to pump her, es her passengers and crew were worn out. The surveyors recommended her immediate discharge, which wa s being proceeded with." The ship Forfarshire, 611. tons, Capt. Kemp, from Liverpool in June last, with coals for Calcutta, was wrecked in Table Bay on Sept. 15. After first leaving Liverpool the vessel was rather leaky, and rut back to be ovethauled but the cause of the leak was n o t atoc riaincd. She then put to sea again, and on the voyage out was very leaky. C4pt. Kemp died at s ea on S eptem b e r 4, leaving a young widow on board, On the same day the crew went aft and asked the chief mate to make for the nearest port to repair the vessel. In maki ng f or Table Bay, w h e n tacking i n, the vessel stru c k on the Whale R o ck, and became a wreck, An abandoned vessel, the new iron.ship Seindian, laden w ith a va luable cargo of s i lk and indigo, had been p port, cargo said picked up at sea off to b e Algoa Bay, and br oug h t into that Briton e o wor ed i 1 ,50,009. H er cro w and passengers were r escued by the Sil ver E ag le, and heard of by the scu on St. Helens. C A.NTER 'BURY H AL L. Triumphant Success of PRINCE PERFUME AND PRINCESS BOUQUET. Under the title of Prince Perfume and Princess Bouquet is nightly to be seen at the Canterbury Hall a Magic Spectacle far transcending in poetry of concept on, b auty and in genuity of arrangement, scenic effect, and br illiancy of light and colour any former application (even at this Hall) of the principle known as the OPTICAL ILLUSION. i n this last collective display of scenic art and of brilliant choreographic and statuesque grouping will be found plc urea surpassing some of the greatest achievements of the Modern Extra vaganza—S, e "THE S IPWREC K," "TH E PHANTOM COMBA. I'," and " THE CURTAIN OF FIRE." The "Illusive Sketch," which is the centre of these corns cat on a, is by Mr. W. F. Vandervell ; the overture and inci dental music by Willem Vandervell. prince Perfume, Mrs. WillHalliam Randall. The Oxford and Canterbury Company (limited). ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, B. R. BIGNELL. During the week, and till further notice, in addition tos, the D an ce Music, Selecti ons from Verdi's popular Opera TrOVatOrC, Traviata, Rigoletto, ; Meyerbecr's Etoile du Nord, lIIILrUCIIOtS, ; Melodies of the Forest, Valse, Guy Mannering, Polka, Sac. Conductor—L. CURTI. Doors open at half-past B.—Admission, One Shilling. Manager—M. GRENET.